Film reviews

Café de Flore (15)***

Vanessa Paradis stars as the doting mother of a child with Down’s syndrome in the 1960s, while in the present another singer, Kevin Parent, plays a DJ who abandons his happy marriage for a younger woman. These parallel stories share a mystical connection that requires a bit of patience. Beautiful, resonant, occasionally exasperating.

Glasgow Film Theatre from Friday

Juan Of The Dead (15)

***

Zombie comedy and a critique of Castro combine in this mildly scary, occasionally brilliant satire. If you see only one Cuban zom-com this year, this is the Juan to go for.

Cameo, Edinburgh, Wednesday and Thursday

North Sea Texas (15)

***

This is Bavo Defurne’s story of lonely gay adolescent Pim (Jelle Florizoone), who falls for his new neighbour. It contains coming-of-age themes and accordion playing.

Glasgow Film Theatre from Friday

All In Good Time (12A)

**

East Is East’s Ayub Khan-Din updates The Family Way into the story of an Asian couple forced to live with his parents after their wedding. Crummy, contrived and apparently endless.

On general release from Friday

Dinotasia (PG)

**

Poor quality CGI dinosaurs walk the earth in this repetitive faux documentary, where the only high spot is German director Werner Herzog’s ludicrously camp narration. If they do a sequel, let’s hope someone has Martin Scorsese’s phone number.

Cameo, Edinburgh, until Thursday

Charlie Casanova (18)

*

Irish sociopath (Emmett Scanlan) does some awful things and bores on about it endlessly. Inept and ugly. No love here.

On selected release from Friday